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Does Jester have any iron near his capital? Its hard to tell from Archduke's map post, and I am not sure what has been changed.
Jester's situation is not hopeless. He has a military and is at least researching bronze working, plus his second city will be situated for a defense. That city has plenty of production for military or even walls, which have been continually strengthened these past few patches. He will need on-par units to defend though. Best case scenario right now is that he pushes his military advantage for the next few turns to bully Woden a bit and secure more land. Jester does not have to attack, he just has park his military north of the river to keep Woden bottled up in the south. Jester would then fill in the rest with his own settlers. To be fair, Jester is not sure what the map looks or where other players are. Hopefully he scouts Woden's land soon, and realizes Woden only has one way to go: North. He really ought to declare war too, to prevent Persia from gaining its surprise war bonus and maybe kill the Persian scout.
ToA is an especially bad choice this early. Amenities will not help Jester's small cities much, nor does he have enough cities that he should worry about running low. His capital should pump out settlers right now so housing should also not be a concern. Plus he has 3x3 food tiles and the rest are all 2 food tiles so he does not need the +4 food. He is going to get so little from the ToA for such a high cost, its honestly sort of frustrating.
I want Jester to do well, but this might quickly turn into a game of Suboptimal and Pin trying to beat down a double sized Woden.
. This game is an example of why the perfect is the enemy of the good.